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The Guardian
Australia Day: a guide to changing minds without ruining the barbecue
The Guardian
But the main objection to this argument is that it is falsely suggests that the negative impacts of colonisation suddenly stopped when we got an Australian prime minister. The impacts of colonisation are ongoing and manifest as the high rates of ...

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NEWS.com.au
Australian of the Year finalists 2018
NEWS.com.au
Theatre director and playwright Scott Rankin set up Big HART as a charity which uses the arts to bring about social justice, and now works with communities in regional, remote and urban Australia to “tell Australia's most invisible stories”. As well as ...

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Manning River Times
Who were the world's first astronomers?
Manning River Times
As Australia has the oldest continuous culture on earth, the first Australians were very likely to have also been the first astronomers. Quite an accolade! Australian astronomers have been studying aboriginal culture and deciphering cave drawings to ...

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Crikey
How Australia Day echoes the 1948 exodus of Palestine
Crikey
So tell me this: will non-aboriginal Australians ever be recognised as Australians by the First Australians? If the answer to this is affirmative, then there is no solution. What about mixed-race Australians? Even if they choose to identify as First ...

Crikey
How Australia Day echoes the 1948 exodus of Palestine
Crikey
So tell me this: will non-aboriginal Australians ever be recognised as Australians by the First Australians? If the answer to this is affirmative, then there is no solution. What about mixed-race Australians? Even if they choose to identify as First ...

Crikey
For this migrant, Australia Day echoes the 1948 exodus of Palestine
Crikey
I was nine years' old when the government issued this heritage medallion to Australian students. My family and I were visiting my father's family in Kuwait during the Bicentennial celebrations. We watched the news of the massive Sydney protest march ...

Daily Mail
Vandals demanding to change the date of Australia Day spray paint the Aboriginal flag and the words 'no pride' on ...
Daily Mail
Meanwhile, the movement to change the date has been slammed by members of the Australian Government. Assistant Immigration Minister Alex Haug said this week he heard no 'reasonable argument' to support a date change. He said the patriotic celebration ...
Captain Cook statue vandalised in Melbourne before Australia DayThe Guardian
Pink paint poured on Captain Cook's statue on eve of Australia DayThe Age
Someone Dumped Pink Paint On A Statue Of Captain Cook To Protest Australia DayJunkee
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Herald Sun
James Cook statue, and Burke and Wills statute vandalised
Herald Sun
... Williams John Wills who were the first white men to cross Australia from south to north. They died on their return to Melbourne in 1861. It is not yet known who defaced the statues. Police dust a beer bottle for finger prints in St Kilda. Picture ...
Vandals demanding to change the date of Australia Day spray paint the Aboriginal flag and the words 'no pride' on ...Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Indigenous director Warwick Thornton invites Australia to learn more about its history on January 26
ABC Online
"I don't like films that just let you dribble and you know who's going to win and what's going to happen" he says. It's no wonder then that his latest film is, at times, hard to watch. Released nationally on the eve of Australia Day, Sweet Country is a ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous director Warwick Thornton invites Australia to learn more about its history on January 26
ABC Online
"I don't like films that just let you dribble and you know who's going to win and what's going to happen" he says. It's no wonder then that his latest film is, at times, hard to watch. Released nationally on the eve of Australia Day, Sweet Country is a ...

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SBS
Mum, daughter in running for Aust awards
SBS
Ms Danganbarr respects the views of her fellow indigenous Australians who want to change the date of Australia Day from January 26. But she thinks there are other priorities to focus on, like domestic violence and school attendance. "I would rather ...

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Warwick Daily News
Indigenous elder says its time to get on the same team
Warwick Daily News
INDIGENOUS elder Sam Bonner may be a big fan of the cricket carnival, but when it comes to Australia Day he doesn't share the same passion. Mr Bonner said it was devastating to know Aboriginal history was constantly being erased. "They've completely ...

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Gladstone Observer
Indigenous elder says its time to get on the same team
Gladstone Observer
INDIGENOUS elder Sam Bonner may be a big fan of the cricket carnival, but when it comes to Australia Day he doesn't share the same passion. Mr Bonner said it was devastating to know Aboriginal history was constantly being erased. "They've completely ...

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Port Macquarie News
Is Wattle Day the answer to Australia Day date concerns?
Port Macquarie News
Aboriginal people object to the celebration of the events of 26 January and many cannot celebrate a day that is the anniversary of an invasion. That was the strong message in the major Aboriginal protest marches that accompanied the 1938 and 1988 ...
LETTER: Time to move Australia Day to National Wattle DayBundaberg News Mail

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Bundaberg News Mail
LETTER: Time to move Australia Day to National Wattle Day
Bundaberg News Mail
Today very many non-Aboriginal Australians are sensitive to that message - a clear indicator of the progress the Australian community is making in our shared journey of reconciliation. Australia Day is not set in stone, we have adapted it as we have ...

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ABC Online
NT Government criticised for giving top Aboriginal affairs job to former MLA
ABC Online
The Northern Territory's Labor Government has come under fire for giving a former politician who was abandoned by remote Aboriginal voters in 2016 a job as a top Indigenous affairs adviser to the Chief Minister. Lynne Walker lost the seat of Nhulunbuy ...

The Age
State opposition to sack councils for not celebrating Australia Day
The Age
Premier Daniel Andrews has criticised the progressive inner-city councils for voting to change the date and instead advocates celebrations which get the "balance right" and respect Indigenous Australians. Local Government Minister Marlene Kairouz ...
Victorian opposition vows to scrap Safe Schools and teach 'western' principlesThe Guardian
Victorian Liberals vow to teach students 'Australian values'SBS

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The Guardian
Invasion Day rally: where protests will be held across Australia
The Guardian
At the same time, the Invasion Day Rally, organised by FIRE (Fighting In Resistance Equally) grassroots Indigenous activists, will leave The Block in Redfern at 10am and march toward Victoria Park, where the Yabun festival is held. The Yabun festival ...
My grandfather protested against Australia Day in 1938. We'll never ...ABC Online
'About the future and the past': NSW Labor to ink treaty with Indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day? We've got bigger fish to fryNational Indigenous Times
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Aboriginal Australians should be considered and celebrated everyday
Moree Champion
There is a growing uneasiness around this week in Australia, particularly around the 26th of January and its status as the national day. Some say it's time to unite while others say it can't be done on a day which is associated with much hurt for the ...

Aboriginal Australians should be considered and celebrated everyday
Moree Champion
There is a growing uneasiness around this week in Australia, particularly around the 26th of January and its status as the national day. Some say it's time to unite while others say it can't be done on a day which is associated with much hurt for the ...